Mass Customization examines the business opportunities, considerations, and challenges manufacturers in various industries must weigh before committing to the significant investment in machinery and software needed to go to mass customization. For manufacturers who decide that it’s time to...

The German Academic Society for Production Engineering is an association of leading German professors of production engineering. The „WGP Jahreskongress" has the aim to foster young researchers by giving the opportunity to publish their research results under their own name exclusively and...

Collection of selected, peer reviewed papers from the 2012 WGP Congress, June 27-28, 2012, Berlin, Germany. The 39 papers are grouped as follows: Chapter 1: Light Weight Construction, Chapter 2: Enabling Mass Production, Chapter 3: Medical and Micro Technology, Chapter 4: E-Mobility, Chapter 5:...

Emerging technologies and supply chain management : Maneuvering in current areas of tensions / Erik Hofmann, Stefan Selensky and Nocolai Kirstätter -- Industry 4.0 creating a buzz in western hemisphere : but watch out for China pulling into the fast lane / Stefan Heng -- Smart manufacturing...

1. Intelligent manufacturing and manufacturing intelligence -- 2. Knowledge-based system -- 3. Intelligent agents and multi-agent systems -- 4. Data mining and knowledge discovery -- 5. Computational intelligence -- 6. Business process modeling and information systems modeling -- 7. Sensor...

The Design of Manufacturing Systems to Cope with Variability -- Modeling Automated Warehouses Using Semi-Open Queueing Networks -- Exact Analysis of Discrete Part Production Lines -- Models of Leveling for Lean Manufacturing Systems -- Value of Advance Demand Information in Production and...